Gene Dorio | The Nursing Home Crucible
Harriet broke her hip and needed surgery. Post-operatively, the hospital was swift to push her out the door, while Medicare controlled the financial strings. Instead of going home, she went…
Medicare scams target seniors
By Kimberly Silverio-Bautista For The Signal Seniors should be on the lookout for Medicare scams, according to the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office. Scammers are profiling themselves as Medicare representatives…
Medicare open enrollment tips to save money
Medicare open enrollment tips to save money
Medicare open enrollment is about to kick off. For most people already enrolled in Medicare, the annual open enrollment period (Oct. 15 through Dec. 7) is the only opportunity to make changes to your existing Medicare coverage.
U.S. Rep Katie Hill/Signal file photo
Jon ‘Bowzer’ Bauman endorses 25th Congressional District candidate
An estimated 50 people gathered at Vincenzo’s Pizza in Newhall Friday to hear why Jon “Bowzer” Bauman, formerly of “Sha Na Na” fame, was endorsing Katie Hill, the Democratic Party’s…
SCV Voices: Guest Commentary
Thomas Oatway: Where reality meets ‘Health care sound bites’
To Steve Lunetta: Regarding the Saturday column “Some sound bites on health care,” I found your article and the research to be quite interesting, but hearing only from the opposite…
Former candidate for the County Board of Supervisors district five Darryl Park holds a sign and an American Flag as part of a protest against the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act. Katharine Lotze/The Signal
Thomas Oatway: Compromise is inevitable
Brian Baker is adamant that “some differences of opinion are so fundamental that there’s no compromise possible” (“Socialized medicine: You’re for it or against it” in Thursday’s Signal Opinion section).…
Santa gives an encouraging bump to James Powell, 5, during a visit to the Henry Mayo Emergency Department. Signal file photo.
Thomas Oatway: ‘Public option’ must be part of insurance choices
A May 25 Opinion piece by right-leaning contributor Steve Lunetta was an honest and accurate admission that free-market health care is doomed to failure as long as the insurance industry…
Jim de Bree
Jim de Bree: Single-payer care stagnates
This column discusses another controversial national health care question: Whether a single-payer health care system makes sense. A single-payer system involves the government controlling and financing the delivery of health-care…
Jim de Bree
Jim de Bree: Obamacare doomed from the outset
Was Obamacare designed to fail? The question asked in this article is one of the most politically charged questions of the health-care debate. Republicans frequently say the Affordable Care Act…
